ePortfolios Teachers have been made aware that any content within their ePortfolio’s reflective journal is publicly available and may be shared with others. We are encouraging teachers to view their colleague’s reflective journals, looking for commonalities and sharing triumphs and frustrations by leaving comments on the journal of a fellow staff member.
Terry Malone - lead Teacher My personal goal in relation to enhancing ICT teaching and learning is to produce excitement about the new tools we are using and provide concrete examples and resources for teachers. Sharing my discoveries and ideas with other teachers has reminded me of the power of simple ideas and colleague’s ideas and questions about tools I am introducing have encouraged me to examine the pros and cons of my decisions more robustly.
A junior class are using a microphone and and an Activboard to enhance their story writing.
Community Every class within the school has a blog, which is run and maintained by the classroom teacher. Blogs include links to curriculum supporting websites, home learning and class notices, collections of task related video and audio clips, the latest class news, student work, and student ideas and discussions, particularly within inquiry using tools such as Wallwisher, Answergarden and Voicethread. **http://mrmaloney.edublogs.org** **http://misspitts.edublogs.org** Parents and students are accessing class blogs regularly, as evidenced by the high numbers on our blog hit counters. They have become an integral and habitual part of our daily classroom life and a great showcase for our school and students.
What we would like to see and what I am encouraging as part of my home learning is a systematic and regular commentary on the blogs by family and friends. Currently the comments and feedback are sporadic and for us to get the full value out of our blogs we need them to become a regular two-way point of contact for our community.
Showing you what we are up to in 2011
Digital Citizenship
We created a visual metaphor using circles within a circle to reflect the interconnected nature of technology and our daily interactions with and around it.
**http://prezi.com/2_umvvcnnwdu/digital-citizenship/**
ePortfolios
Teachers have been made aware that any content within their ePortfolio’s reflective journal is publicly available and may be shared with others. We are encouraging teachers to view their colleague’s reflective journals, looking for commonalities and sharing triumphs and frustrations by leaving comments on the journal of a fellow staff member.
Terry Malone - lead Teacher
My personal goal in relation to enhancing ICT teaching and learning is to produce excitement about the new tools we are using and provide concrete examples and resources for teachers. Sharing my discoveries and ideas with other teachers has reminded me of the power of simple ideas and colleague’s ideas and questions about tools I am introducing have encouraged me to examine the pros and cons of my decisions more robustly.
A junior class are using a microphone and and an Activboard to enhance their story writing.
Community
Every class within the school has a blog, which is run and maintained by the classroom teacher. Blogs include links to curriculum supporting websites, home learning and class notices, collections of task related video and audio clips, the latest class news, student work, and student ideas and discussions, particularly within inquiry using tools such as Wallwisher, Answergarden and Voicethread.
**http://mrmaloney.edublogs.org**
**http://misspitts.edublogs.org**
Parents and students are accessing class blogs regularly, as evidenced by the high numbers on our blog hit counters. They have become an integral and habitual part of our daily classroom life and a great showcase for our school and students.
What we would like to see and what I am encouraging as part of my home learning is a systematic and regular commentary on the blogs by family and friends. Currently the comments and feedback are sporadic and for us to get the full value out of our blogs we need them to become a regular two-way point of contact for our community.
**http://mrmaloney.edublogs.org/2011/05/10/class-art/#comments**
**http://mrmaloney.edublogs.org/2011/05/08/colour-in-advertising/#comments**
**http://mrmaloney.edublogs.org/2011/05/04/questions/#comments**